This book from Ceramic Academy is an English medium (अंग्रेज़ी माध्यम) title by Vikas Gupta Sir, covering the modern history of India (आधुनिक भारत का इतिहास) for state competitive examinations. It is prepared for RAS (Pre + Mains), PSI and other competitive examinations, and this is the new edition for 2026.
Modern Indian history is the highest-yield history section in RPSC papers, and it is also the one where candidates most often study more than they need. The period from the arrival of the European trading companies through the consolidation of British rule, the revolt of 1857, the socio-religious reform movements, the rise of nationalism, the moderate and extremist phases, the revolutionary movements, the Gandhian era with its major national movements, constitutional developments and the negotiations leading to independence and partition — is vast enough that a general history text becomes unmanageable in a preparation schedule. A book written to a specific examination fixes both the depth and the boundary.
What makes this edition worth noting is that it addresses both stages of RAS in one volume. The preliminary paper needs precise facts — dates, sessions, acts, personalities, sequences — while the mains paper needs the causes, significance and consequences written out in analytical form under time pressure. Most candidates otherwise buy an objective book for prelims and rewrite their notes for mains. It is also aimed at PSI and other state examinations where the same section recurs with a lighter treatment. Vikas Gupta Sir is faculty at Ceramic Academy, which also publishes RAS Mains titles in law, ethics, behaviour and accounting. The whole book is written in English in the Roman script.
Key Features:
English medium book — complete content written in English (Roman script), not in Hindi
By Vikas Gupta Sir, published by Ceramic Academy
New Edition 2026
For RAS Preliminary and Mains, PSI and other competitive examinations
Single volume serving both the objective prelims and the descriptive mains requirement
Covers the advent of European powers and the establishment of British rule
Covers British economic policies and their impact on India
Covers the revolt of 1857 and earlier popular resistance
Covers socio-religious reform movements of the nineteenth century
Covers the rise of nationalism and the formation of the Indian National Congress
Covers the moderate and extremist phases and the Swadeshi movement
Covers the revolutionary movements and their leaders
Covers the Gandhian era — Non-Cooperation, Civil Disobedience and Quit India
Covers constitutional developments and the major Acts
Covers the negotiations leading to independence and partition
Depth and boundary set by the examination syllabus rather than by a general history text
Written by serving academy faculty preparing candidates for these papers
Useful for RAS Mains answer writing as well as prelims recall
सिरैमिक अकादमी द्वारा प्रकाशित विकास गुप्ता सर की 'India Modern History' का यह नवीन संस्करण 2026 राज्य स्तरीय प्रतियोगी परीक्षाओं — RAS (प्री एवं मुख्य), PSI तथा अन्य परीक्षाओं — के लिए तैयार किया गया है। आधुनिक भारत का इतिहास RPSC की परीक्षाओं में सर्वाधिक अंक देने वाला खंड है, किंतु सामान्य इतिहास ग्रंथों से पढ़ने पर यह अत्यंत विस्तृत हो जाता है; परीक्षा-केंद्रित पुस्तक विषय की गहराई एवं सीमा दोनों निर्धारित कर देती है। इसमें यूरोपीय शक्तियों का आगमन एवं ब्रिटिश सत्ता की स्थापना, ब्रिटिश आर्थिक नीतियाँ, 1857 का विद्रोह, सामाजिक-धार्मिक सुधार आंदोलन, राष्ट्रवाद का उदय एवं कांग्रेस की स्थापना, उदारवादी एवं उग्रवादी चरण, क्रांतिकारी आंदोलन, गांधी युग के प्रमुख राष्ट्रीय आंदोलन, संवैधानिक विकास तथा स्वतंत्रता एवं विभाजन तक की घटनाएँ सम्मिलित हैं। पुस्तक की विशेषता यह है कि यह प्रारंभिक परीक्षा हेतु तथ्यात्मक शुद्धता तथा मुख्य परीक्षा हेतु कारण, महत्त्व एवं परिणाम आधारित विश्लेषणात्मक प्रस्तुति — दोनों आवश्यकताएँ एक ही पुस्तक में पूरी करती है। ध्यान दें: यह पुस्तक पूर्णतः अंग्रेज़ी भाषा एवं रोमन लिपि में है, हिन्दी में नहीं।
